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The name, is great really stood out and I found it pretty hilarious.  The setup is pretty good as well and the genre mix up is executed pretty well I had a lot of fun trying to uh... definitely play legit by stacking endless plants on top of each other and then just getting all the gold.  As for some specifics tho:

  • The counters for both money and ammo were well done, but personally felt a little out of the way for me, I would've preferred them at the bottom near the health bar or something.  Though that's also down to my very spam heavy plant buying where I ended up having to try and survive without any money until some spawned.
  • It was interesting to see what seemed to a be a bit of auto aim to compensate for the camera angle and controls blocking vertical aiming which was cool, I was a bit worried that I would be unable to hit the higher enemies but that never ended up being an issue.  All that did, were the hordes.
  • As for the hordes, the turrets felt a little weak especially when it came to dealing with such giant groups of drones, though the timer never really seemed to be the issue, it seemed to more be down to the fire rate.  Honestly I feel like the despawn timer was almost too long while the fire rate was too low.  
  • Something that was a little weird to me was the fact that the plants block you but not the bullets from either you or the drones, or the drones themselves, even when they seemed to be on the same height.  I feel like it could be interesting to maybe take a bit of a plants vs zombies approach and add some sort of plant variant?  Ex. something that blocks 3 attacks but gives no money when fully grown, etc..
  • To finish off the rooftop you are on felt relatively small, especially when the drones start coming in hordes and you're attempting to walk around your plants.  Maybe adding say, multiple levels that you get to after surviving however long which may be there, I just only survived a few minutes with no indication that then increases the enemy count and the rooftop size?  Just an out there suggestion though.

Overall, definitely not the genre mashup I was expecting when I read it, but definitely enjoyable.  Personally I really enjoy the strategy of TD games so I'd lean heavily into suggesting more turret variants etc. but it's all up to you.

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Love in-depth feedback like this!

The changes to the turret would probably help a lot! They do seem a little weak especially as the game progresses. I really struggle to balance my games actually. Other than play testing, I wonder if there are some rules of thumb I could be following. Need to do some research!

The plant variant idea is great. I tried having the drone lasers hit all objects, but that opened up the strategy of sandwiching yourself between a bunch of plants and not worrying about drones at all. Plant variants would really open up a lot of possibilities.

For the rooftops, I originally planned to have zip lines between them. The idea would be you create a little plant growing engine with turrets protecting them and then move on to another rooftop. But then... suddenly it was Sunday :( Still recouping from my sleep loss haha.

Happy to see you noticed the slight vertical auto-aim :D

Okay first off, zip lines sound awesome if you update this with them I'm definitely coming back cause that sounds insane.  As for the wedging yourself between plants.  I can definitely see that.  Though something that could possibly help that I did just think of is maybe adding some sort of... "vertical" tower that could counter the addition of "bomber" drones or something.  Which could lead to the plant variants being helpful, while also balancing them to only helping against one drone type.

Also, I don't know if I mentioned it in my first comment, but there was a bug I found where you could endlessly stack plants on top of each other.  I don't think that's super balanced, but as I'm writing this I do think it could be an interesting upgrade mechanic.  Assuming you add some sort of auto aim that doesn't super conflict with the placing system.  


To end off before I write another wall of text, it's always awesome to get a paragraph in response to a paragraph.

seriously though, if you add those ziplines I'm gonna be checking